122 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



E. Heparata. — Plentiful. 



A. Trigeminala. Very plentiful on one evening. 



A. Straminala. — No rarit3\ 



A. Immutata. — Common. 



A. Emutaria. — One female, from which I bred. 



M. AUernata. — Three specimens. 



M. Liturata. — Not uncommon. 



S. Plumaria. — Very common, and widely distributed. The 

 female by no means uncommon, but difficult to obtain in 

 fine condition. It is curious that this insect, of which I did 

 not see one specimen the season before last, should have 

 been so very common last year. 



M. Euphorbiaia. — Not uncommon. 



E. Pumilata. — Common. 



M. Ruhiginata. — Common. 



M. Alhicillata. — Not common. 



E. Plinnharia. — Very common. 



E. Mensuraria. — Common. 



O. Ch(BrophyUata. — Common. 



H. Quercana. — Not uncommon. At sugar. 



A. B. Farn. 



Lepidoptera on the Sand-hills. — Mr. Porrilt, of Hudders- 

 field, and I, visited the Lancashire and Cheshire sand-hills 

 in the second week after Easter. Some account of our 

 doings at so early a season may be interesting. Fortunately 

 we had the good luck to hit upon one of the few fine weeks 

 we have had for a long time, — with the exception of the first 

 night the weather was all that could be desired, — bright and 

 hot in the daytime, and still and warm at night. We met at 

 Southport Station at mid-day on Monday, April 8th, and, 

 having secured quarters, went on the sand-hills to look for 

 larvae of O. fascelina on the sallows : though not so plentiful 

 as usual, during the afternoon and following morning we 

 managed to secure nearly two hundred between us. On 

 Monday night we sallied forth with lanterns; but the wind 

 was high and the atmosphere cold, and a smart shower or two 

 soon sent us back, after having lost our way among the sand- 

 hills, and for a short time trudging away in the direction of 

 Lytham, one of us maintaining that the lights of that town 



